What actually happened is that Camilla Thurlow had sex with another person, and later described his penis as ‘perfect.’ She didn’t do twelve foot high painting of it in her own menstrual blood, or tear up the soft furnishings in the Love Island villa in order to make a tributary tapestry. She just casually mentioned that as penises go, it was extremely nice.

Yet we were shocked. Because Camilla, who says bath to rhyme with hearth, and has a shock horror, actual real life degree, is not the kind of woman who has sex.

Nice girls like Camilla don’t have sex. Once they’re married they close their eyes very tight while in bed with their equally perfect husbands, and nine months later a Mini Boden clad bundle of joy arrives.

Camilla on having sex with Jamie on Love Island

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The kind of person who has a proper job and nice swishy hair and a decent moral standing isn’t supposed to also have sexual feelings.

When other women in the Love Island villa have indulged in a game of hide the Malloca sausage without much outrage.

Yes, it’s interesting when a part-time model and influencer has sex with a personal trainer, in a room full of other part-time model and influencers and personal trainers, but it’s not shocking.

This is the face of a woman who couldn’t possibly ever enjoy sex. (Picture: ITV Studios)

Those types of people are supposed to have sex, you see. Because they’re not ‘nice’ or ‘good’. But Camilla? Camilla played lacrosse for Scotland and got a first in her degree. She works for a charity and gives blood. So apparently, the idea that she might actually enjoy sex, is shocking.

We like to think that we become more liberal as a society as time goes on – more open minded and accepting. And in some ways, that’s true. Our attitudes towards same-sex relationships or pre-marital sex have, broadly speaking, developed.

And yet the totally dated and judgmental view that sweet, nice girls only ever make the beast with two backs in a relationship when there are rose petals scattered over the bed and an ‘R’ in the month, endures just as much in 2017 as it did in 1950.

‘When guys find out that I’m a primary school teacher, and that I’m a Brownie leader, they treat me differently,’ Annabelle*, 27 from East London told me.

‘It’s like they think I’m going to be really sweet and gentle in bed because I work with kids and I’m softly spoken. Which isn’t true. I’ve experimented with swinging and BDSM, though a lot of guys are properly shocked when they find that out. I get that it’s a bit of a contrast with my day-to-day life, but your sex life is different from your regular life, and I don’t like it when people assume I must be this ‘nice’ all the time’.

Let’s get real here. Some good, kind, nice people like to bone. Some nasty, materialistic, unkind people are also prudes. Your relationship with sex, how much you have and how many people you’ve slept with, has literally nothing to do with what kind of a person you are.

It’s not an indicator of being classy to keep your legs together, nor does it make you boring to be unsexual. Correlating how much we expect someone to enjoy sex with how nice they are is about as sensible as making a connection between how ‘nice’ someone seems and how often they blink.